Alia Bhatt is completing 10 years in cinema as a lead actress. Alia has stunned both her fans and critics in her career by portraying offbeat characters at regular intervals. ‘Highway’, ‘Udta Punjab’, ‘Dear Zindagi’, ‘Raazi’ and ‘Gully Boy’ have become milestones in his acting journey. Dhukdhuki now belongs to ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’. The union of a very fiery film director and a calm, simple and easy going actress Alia Bhatt is interesting in itself. Director Mahesh Bhatt and actress Soni Razdan’s daughter Alia Bhatt was given a chance in cinema by Karan Johar. But, she has reached the top in Hindi cinema with her constant hard work. Pankaj Shukla, advisory editor of ‘AnyTV’ had this special conversation with Alia on her performance, tone and her hard work to learn dialects according to the character.
film ,Gangubai Kathiawadi, A special dialect, a special texture film looks from its trailer, How was your preparation to capture the tone of your character?
There is no fixed blueprint for shooting with the director of the film Sanjay Leela Bhansali. He can carry the texture of the film from anywhere. But for the bid I did workshops. The masterful devotion of pronunciation helped me in this. Gangubai is a girl from Kathiawar. How will she talk? Which words would be different in Hindi? Like that power does not speak power. But then he also has a visit to Bombay (now Mumbai), so its effect also comes slowly on his speech.
You are completing a decade as a heroine in cinema and on an average every two years you have given a film which gave a new direction to your career. Who will give credit for this, to your selection of stories or to their directors?,
We become an acquaintance with our work. The more different characters the artist chooses, the more diversity is visible in his performance. The characters also have different colors. A director does not know which color of a character would like. The performance in a single scene completes a director’s hunt for an artist to characterize his story. And, luck also works in that the opportunity comes and dates are also available to fulfill it.
and director,
Only the director does the final work on the characters. The artist is just a medium to present the director’s point of view, the writer’s thinking on screen. Yes, the face is in front of the artist, he just has to add his side to it, a kind of tone, a touch that brings alive the thoughts of the writer and director. In the film ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ I also got a kind of creative satisfaction which I probably never got before. Sanjay sir put so much trust in me and gave me a responsibility so credit goes to him.
And, also the coincidence because he would make ,Insha-Allah‘ Were going and she closed then became ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi,,
Yes, I also sometimes think that maybe if ‘Inshallah’ had become there, then maybe ‘Gangubai’ would not have happened again. Sometimes bad experiences can give you good feelings. Sometimes bad things happen for good reasons in life. At that time I felt that so much injustice was done to me. But he said that I have promised to make a film with you. You go, have fun for two weeks and then come. And then when I came, he handed me the script of ‘Gangubai’. Seeing this character for the first time, I was also scared that why are you taking me for this character.